Finding Your Roots

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Narrator

We came to Kehinde's second great grandfather, Noah Degrate, who provided us with an immediate surprise. Would you please read the transcribed section. I enlisted in Company F of 63rd Registry, US Colored Infantry, a short distance above not just Mississippi, I was 18 years of age. At the time of enlistment, I was a slave. The property of William Lang, a planter. You ready for this? Your great great grandfather was a veteran of the Civil War. (man chuckles) That's crazy, there's this narrative that's following through every single generation. Warriors. He was a Union soldier. Did you ever in your wildest dreams think you had an ancestor who fought with the US Colored Troops as they were called? No, I mean. This is, this is intense. (inspiring music)